Today happens to be my birthday. To reverse the tradition, how about I give you a gift? If you find yourself spending hours creating partitions in BIDS, you might find the Partition Generator sample (requires registration at the Prologika website) useful. Often, I partition larger cubes by month which may require creating quite a few partitions. Not only is this time-consuming and tedious, but is also error-prone as you can easily get the partition slice query wrong. Written as a C# console application, Partition Generator has the following design goals: